Oh, these are priceless. I love hearing these stories!
Since you twisted my arm (grin), here are a couple giggles from the past week:
DD6, talking about a play date with a friend: "She let me use some of her makeup. Just some lipstick. She was really nice. Except (pause, adapting a sad tone) I accidentally dissected her lipstick."
Me: "What do you mean? How did you 'dissect' her lipstick?"
Then DD6 described how she "accidentally" took the whole thing apart, and what the little parts inside the tube looked like.
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DD6, to her siblings: "What's 2 minus 12?"
DS8: "You can't take 12 away from 2. You have to take 2 away from 12."
DD6: "Hunh-unh, that's not true. You CAN take 12 away from 2. The answer would be (brief pause) Negative 10."
DD12: "Actually she's right."
DD6: "The ones under zero are the negative numbers."
Me: "Who taught you about negative numbers?"
DD6: "Nobody. I just figured it out myself. It's like zero is the ground. The negative numbers have to live underground, with the bugs and stuff. And the other numbers live above the ground."
GG
